A semi-updated collections of the slides from my research talks.

• Invariants of 2-bridge knots. Knots in Washington 50, George Washington University. December 8, 2024.
• The expected value of invariants of rational knots. AMS Sectional Meeting, Howard University, April 7, 2024.
• Statistics of invariants of 2-bridge knots. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of South Alabama. October 16, 2023.
• The genus distribution of 2-bridge knots. AMS Sectional Meeting, California State University, Fresno. May 6, 2023.
• An introduction to Khovanov homology. Hudson River Mathematics Conference, Mt. Holyoke College. April 1, 2023.
• The genus distribution of 2-bridge knots. AMS Sectional Meeting, Georgia Tech. March 18-19, 2023.
• Near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links. Knots in Washington 49.5. December 3, 2021.
• The Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links. CUNY Topology seminar. September 24, 2019.
• Unknotting and region crossing change. UnKnot IV, University of Washington, Bothell. July 19-21, 2019. Given by my students S. Goodhill, V. Munoz Gonzales, J. Rattray, and A. Zeh.
• Unknot detection and the Jones polynomial. UnKnot IV, University of Washington, Bothell. July 19-21, 2019.
• Invariants of Turaev genus one links. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa. March 22-24, 2019.
• Gordian distance and Khovanov homology spectral sequences. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD. January 18, 2019.
• Are almost alternating links semi-adequate? Knots in Washington XLVI, George Washington University. May 4-6, 2018.
• The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link. AMS Sectional Meeting, Washington State University. April 22-23, 2017.
• Invariants of Turaev genus one links. AMS Sectional Meeting, College of Charleston. March 10-12, 2017.
• Computing the Turaev genus of a link. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. January 4-7, 2017.
• The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link and Turaev genus one link. Knots in Washington, George Washington University. December 9-11, 2016.
• Chromatic homology, Khovanov homology, and torsion. AMS Sectional Meeting, North Carolina State University.  November 12-13, 2016.
• The Jones polynomial of almost alternating and Turaev genus one links. Knots in the Triangle, North Carolina State University. April 29 – May 1, 2016.
• Almost alternating links and the Jones polynomial. Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, St. Michael’s College. April 2, 2016.
• Invariants of Turaev genus one knots. Advances in Low-Dimensional and Quantum Topology, University of Iowa. March 11-13, 2016.
• Knots of Turaev genus one. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Georgia. March 5-6, 2016.
• Signature and alternating tangle decompositions. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, Washington. January 6-9, 2016.
• Signatures and Turaev genera of knots. Knots in Washington, George Washington University. December 4-6, 2015.
• Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion. Columbia University Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar. October 16, 2015.
• Alternating tangle decompositions. Williams College Mathematics Colloquium. September 18, 2015.
• Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. April 18-19, 2015.
• Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion. AMS Sectional Meeting, Michigan State University. March 14-15, 2015.
• Odd torsion in the Khovanov homology of semi-adequate links. Knots in Washington, George Washington University. March 9-11, 2015.
• Turaev genus and alternating decompositions. AMS Sectional Meeting, Georgetown University. March 7-8, 2015.
• Alternating distances of knots. Knots in Dallas, University of Texas at Dallas. January 6-9, 2015.
• Alternating distances of knots and links. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. November 8-9, 2014.
• The Turaev surface, ribbon graphs, and Khovanov homology. Geometry and Topology Seminar, North Carolina State University. November 6, 2014.
• Alternating distances of knots and links. 29th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications, College of Staten Island, City University of New York. July 23-26, 2014.
• Measuring a knot’s distance from alternating. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland. January 15-18, 2014.
• Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of California, Riverside. November 2-3, 2013.
• Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs. AMS Sectional Meeting, Washington University, St. Louis. October 18-20, 2013.
• Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs. AMS Sectional Meeting, Temple University. October 12-13, 2013.